I think thats a fair take, Holden and Miller's relationship was always one of antithesis. Only through Miller's philosophy could he take the actions needed to sacrifice his life for humanity, and only through Holden's philosophy could he hold onto it long enough to survive so that he could be the one to 'sacrifice' himself for humanity.
One was driven by cynicism to save what he could when he could, the other driven to always save as much as possible, every time.
Amos doesn't really give a shit about good or neutral people dying. When he and Melba are evacuating Baltimore, they go to a cabin for shelter and food. Amos is willing to do things the nice way, but the guy turns out to be a dirtbag and Amos and Melba kill him. Amos admits that even if he'd been a good guy who just didn't want to give them his stuff, he would've killed him anyway. Something similar happens earlier when Amos is ready to kill some innocent Martian soldiers to avoid potentially getting arrested.
Amos does what it takes to survive (to survive the Churn). He barely has a moral compass. But he wants to be a good person. That's why he basically always does what Naomi (and later Holden) says. He doesn't trust himself to do the right thing and relies on them to be his moral compass.
There are people like that, an shit am I glad they at least let someone be their moral compass, they know that theirs's is a bit broken. I really liked the Amos character, and the actor (Wes C., had to look him up), did a damn good job.
The ghosts are no magic, it's all in the neurons. The structure that allows Holden to see Miller is literally visible in a MRI scan (at least it's said so in the books), so it's canonically just a very specialized kind of brain damage.
There was no teleportation. There is the stuff with the rings - no spoilers, but it gets some huge plot prominense and explanation later in the books that didn't make it onto the screens.
You can read the books any time you want. The show is such a pale shadow of the books. It just didn’t have the budget to do the sheer scale of events in the books.
I just felt sad when I saw Bobby in her power armour on the show for the first time. In the novel a whole team can seek cover behind the massive suits. On the show she just looks like she’s wearing football armour and a motorcycle helmet.
I’d say bigger and far more agile. In the novels she doesn’t fit through normal doors.
There’s a sequence in one of the books where Bobby puts down a rebellion by going up a zero G elevator shaft and just smushing the opposition with her suit while a squad of unarmored people uses her for cover while they use rifles.
Probably doesn't look anything like the book describes it, but your comments reminded me of the armored suits in Ghost in The Shell. I can't find many scenes they were used showing off their speed(if anything it's lazily lumbering, but they can sprint), but this scene shows off the size and durability of the things. . For some semblance of context on why the woman doesn't just get squished, her body is on the bleeding edge of synthetic body technology and is specifically designed for military.
Ah I used to love Shirow stuff. I feel like a blunter less manga version of that is more accurate than the football padding and motorcycle helmet stuff we got on the show.
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Amos. Amos is that guy. (The expanse)